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A.D. 1795.]
REGULATION XLII.
409
XLVI. [X%7736 Xgg^og AZUM. 7?gqgMMog A7A. 1793.]
XLVII. {[Xtizgg %.$ XggZozz AZU7Z 7?gqzzM<fMg AZA. 1793, -ygb^zMMgq
^ sovereignty of Benares " yb?' ^ dewanny."]
XLVIII. No part of this Regulation is to be construed to extend to
jaghire, altumgah, muddud maash, ayma, or other grants of land termed
badshahee or royai, and held, or stated to be heid, under a royal hrmaun.
The rules applicable to such grants are contained in Regulation XLII.
1795.
A.D. 1795. REGULATION XLII.*
A REGULATION ggggMq/, ggM 7!Z9tZ/maM)g.y, Mg ZgZ.S' yb?' Mg
Ug7Mz(y q/ Mg ZzMg.y q/* Zg7\sug.y AoMbq/, or gMzbgzgq a M AoM,
g/Mzg^gA, j'hqAu'g, oMgr Zgg&, zg Mg Z^ozgggg q/ Zgzzgz'g.y, g.yg??^^
y?'07?z Mg ZMz/gzgg^ q/* pgb^'c Agggggg, zzzzJg/- ^gzvggt^ 7MMsAgAgg or
Aoyg/, or mg& M/ Mg Xgprgyizg jPozogrybr Mg ^bgg bgzg_q; gM^ybr &Mr-
ygzgzgq zgAgg ggrMM (7?^g^ q/ Mgi* i)g^grzpMo77 Mg^ bg cog^Mgzy^ M
Aggg g^yZ'gtb; ggtb ybr y^.yuzq Mg A zgogg^* o/ Mg jogbZg ^gggzzgg ^o bg
g.y.yg.y.sg^ zzpog Mg Zggtf.s*, Mg Grg?M$ ybr zgbzgb zgqy ggpzrg or bg g^/gbyg^
Mrg/M; PASSED by Mg O'orgrzzoz^-Ggggrg/ zg UoggczY, og Mg 31V Jg(y,
1795.
1. By the ancient law of the country, the ruling power is entitled to a
certain proportion of the produce of every begah of land, unless it trans-
fers its right thereto for a term or in perpetuity. As a necessary conse-
quence of this law, every grant or alienation of Government's proportion
of the produce of land, without its sanction, was considered null and void.
Had the validity of such grants or alienations been admitted, it is obvious
that the public revenue would have been liable to gradual diminution. Under
the native Government, grants, under the denomination of jaghire, altum-
gah, and other appellations, were occasionaliy made of the Government's
share'of the produce of lands, for the support of the families of persons
who had performed public services, for religious or charitable purposes, for
maintaining troops, and for other services. The British Government have
continued in possession the grantees and their heirs, as tar as respects
such of these grants as were hereditary, and were made before the 1st July,
1775, the date of the cession of the province of Benares to the Company,
provided the grantees or their heirs obtained possession previous to that
date: but those grants which were for life only have been invariably con-
sidered as resumable from the death of the grantees. No complete
register of these grants having been formed on the cession of the province
to the Company, nor subsequent to that period, many persons may have
retained possession of lands under fabricated or antedated grants, or sue-
extend to badshahee
grants.
Reg. XLII. 1795.
* See note to Regulation XXXVII. 1793.
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REGULATION XLII.
409
XLVI. [X%7736 Xgg^og AZUM. 7?gqgMMog A7A. 1793.]
XLVII. {[Xtizgg %.$ XggZozz AZU7Z 7?gqzzM<fMg AZA. 1793, -ygb^zMMgq
^ sovereignty of Benares " yb?' ^ dewanny."]
XLVIII. No part of this Regulation is to be construed to extend to
jaghire, altumgah, muddud maash, ayma, or other grants of land termed
badshahee or royai, and held, or stated to be heid, under a royal hrmaun.
The rules applicable to such grants are contained in Regulation XLII.
1795.
A.D. 1795. REGULATION XLII.*
A REGULATION ggggMq/, ggM 7!Z9tZ/maM)g.y, Mg ZgZ.S' yb?' Mg
Ug7Mz(y q/ Mg ZzMg.y q/* Zg7\sug.y AoMbq/, or gMzbgzgq a M AoM,
g/Mzg^gA, j'hqAu'g, oMgr Zgg&, zg Mg Z^ozgggg q/ Zgzzgz'g.y, g.yg??^^
y?'07?z Mg ZMz/gzgg^ q/* pgb^'c Agggggg, zzzzJg/- ^gzvggt^ 7MMsAgAgg or
Aoyg/, or mg& M/ Mg Xgprgyizg jPozogrybr Mg ^bgg bgzg_q; gM^ybr &Mr-
ygzgzgq zgAgg ggrMM (7?^g^ q/ Mgi* i)g^grzpMo77 Mg^ bg cog^Mgzy^ M
Aggg g^yZ'gtb; ggtb ybr y^.yuzq Mg A zgogg^* o/ Mg jogbZg ^gggzzgg ^o bg
g.y.yg.y.sg^ zzpog Mg Zggtf.s*, Mg Grg?M$ ybr zgbzgb zgqy ggpzrg or bg g^/gbyg^
Mrg/M; PASSED by Mg O'orgrzzoz^-Ggggrg/ zg UoggczY, og Mg 31V Jg(y,
1795.
1. By the ancient law of the country, the ruling power is entitled to a
certain proportion of the produce of every begah of land, unless it trans-
fers its right thereto for a term or in perpetuity. As a necessary conse-
quence of this law, every grant or alienation of Government's proportion
of the produce of land, without its sanction, was considered null and void.
Had the validity of such grants or alienations been admitted, it is obvious
that the public revenue would have been liable to gradual diminution. Under
the native Government, grants, under the denomination of jaghire, altum-
gah, and other appellations, were occasionaliy made of the Government's
share'of the produce of lands, for the support of the families of persons
who had performed public services, for religious or charitable purposes, for
maintaining troops, and for other services. The British Government have
continued in possession the grantees and their heirs, as tar as respects
such of these grants as were hereditary, and were made before the 1st July,
1775, the date of the cession of the province of Benares to the Company,
provided the grantees or their heirs obtained possession previous to that
date: but those grants which were for life only have been invariably con-
sidered as resumable from the death of the grantees. No complete
register of these grants having been formed on the cession of the province
to the Company, nor subsequent to that period, many persons may have
retained possession of lands under fabricated or antedated grants, or sue-
extend to badshahee
grants.
Reg. XLII. 1795.
* See note to Regulation XXXVII. 1793.
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